Mr. Rumsfeld also said that some senior members of the Taliban and Al Qaeda have been captured by the Northern Alliance, and that interrogations could produce intelligence of value to the campaign in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world in an expanding war on terror.
The memo says now-discontinued CIA interrogation practices were brutal and produced little intelligence of value.
The practices were brutal and produced little intelligence of value, a leaked White House memo said in July 2014.
J. Walter Moore was indeed in the CIA's Domestic Contact Service in Dallas which had responsibility for debriefing returning visitors from the Soviet Union that had potential intelligence of value.
Most are no longer of any intelligence value, American officials admit.
"That said, regardless of any intelligence value, I will tell you without hesitation that intelligence procedures have got to be done in accordance with the approriate standards..
Government officials said that Mr. Muller had told the lawmakers that the C.I.A. intended to destroy the interrogation tapes, arguing that they were no longer of any intelligence value and that the interrogations they showed put agency operatives who appeared in the tapes at risk.
In the former interrogator's view, fewer than a quarter of the detainees had any intelligence value.
"There is intelligence of enormous value to the nation that is received every day" from the questioning, he said.
Most important, say the report's critics, the programme produced intelligence of genuine value.The rebuttal misses the point.
